Sweating profusely, Segun Yusuf wiped his face with a handkerchief while trying, at the same time, to shield his eyes from the rays of sun that came down through the cloudless sky, as he walked along Ago Hausa Street in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos. Time was around midday.

Captain Sam Ewang (retd) was, at different times, military administrator of Ogun and Rivers states. He vied to be Akwa Ibom State governor on the platform of the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, before the merger of some opposition political parties that gave birth to the All Progressives Congress (APC). During the last general elections, he also aspired for the Akwa Ibom governorship position on the platform of the APC. In this interview, Ewang speaks on the performance of the ruling APC at the federal level and issues bordering on security and politics in the country and his home state.

General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Reverend Musa Asake, hails from Unguwar Rimi, Bajju in Zangon Kataf Local Government of Kaduna State where he began his ministerial work as Assistant Pastor at ECWA Church in 1976. In this telephone interview Asake expresses disgust about government’s handling of the intractable Southern Kaduna crisis, saying CAN can only bark but cannot bite. Excerpts…..

Matilda Obiajunwa, a graduate of creative arts from University of Lagos (UNILAG), is founder and Chief Projects Coordinator of Daivyan Cancer Foundation. In this interview, Obiajunwa talks about childhood cancer, using the experience of her three years six months old son, who survived kidney cancer, as case study.

The presence of stern looking armed men in a building at Airport Bye-Pass, Calabar, Cross River State sent shivers down the spines of its occupants who were ordered to lie flat . Time was 8am. An attempt by the family head, Peter Denneth, an architect, to shield members of his family from being hurt earned him machete cuts all over his body.